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They are magnificent creatures! AKA “thumb-splitters” They have very complex eyes. I know a diver who had his dome lens port cracked by a mantis, flooding his camera.


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Yikes. Just did some browsing. That’s the real deal.
 
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Badass and tasty too! One of my favorites when I am in Hong Kong. Go to the fresh fish market at Lei Yue Mun and pick the fresh catch. Have it cooked up right there on the dock. Fry them up with garlic and some noodles.



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LOL..onetwothree death. I gotta go look one up.
 
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...Have it cooked up right there on the dock...

Sounds like good advice, considering it could kill you on the way home otherwise! Eek


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The Chuck Norris of the shrimp world Big Grin


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That is my all-time favorite Oatmeal article. Click on the link to read the whole thing. OP just posted just some of the of many comic panes.



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Here I was getting my hopes up that it was going to be another delicious looking "Dinner with Protection" threads. Boy was I wrong!
 
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I thought that it might be about kung fu...

Dance of Drunken Mantis

https://youtu.be/Yuo2WkOhuK8


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I watched a short video in which they said 40,000 frames per second. Any one know what that means ?
 
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Well, shit, the way I see it, it's either him or me, and I ain't goin' out like that, fried up with garlic and noodles, so...
 
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I watched a short video in which they said 40,000 frames per second. Any one know what that means ?
It means that images are captured 40,000 times every second. To put things in perspective, the frame rate for motion picture film is 24 frames per second. Video is 60 fps, I think.


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Wow. It must be done with a laser or somehow. Kind of beyond my knowledge.
 
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You can eat him but first you gotta beat him!
 
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I watched a short video in which they said 40,000 frames per second. Any one know what that means ?
It means that images are captured 40,000 times every second. To put things in perspective, the frame rate for motion picture film is 24 frames per second. Video is 60 fps, I think.


Traditional TV, VHS tapes, DVDs, things like that, are 30 fps, while high definition TV, Blurays, etc., can be 30 or 60 (mostly 60 these days).
 
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The Chuck Norris of the shrimp world Big Grin


Chuck Norris wishes.





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The Chuck Norris of the shrimp world Big Grin


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I love "True Facts" Big Grin


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"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches
Making the best of what ever comes our way
Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition
Plowing straight ahead come what may
And theres a cowboy in the jungle"
Jimmy Buffet
 
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They are wicked smart, too.

 
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Used to catch them in my shrimp trawl pretty regular, spiky things, but they taste like regular shrimp to me, kind of a pain to peel.
 
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